Some Questions

> Ok, Before I get to my questions please understand I ask
> because I don't know the answers and don't know where to find

Best reason I can think of to ask questions.

> them. As such although they may apear stupid to some of you I
> suspect others might want to know the answers also.

The only stupid question is one a body is too stupid to ask. I've
been there.

Others here have been answering some of the other questions, but this
one I feel deserves a post of its own.

> 7. How come the anime Mobile Suit Gundam is the ONLY mass media
> product featuring Mr. Oniell's colonies and ideas? It would seem

Mobile Suit Gundam has spawned at least two other series, one of
which can be seen from time to time on Cartoon Network. That one is
Gundam Wing, and the other is G-Savior. I have heard that there are
other anime, but I have not seen them or even know their names (if
they even exist at all). An interesting site covering Gundam and the
High Frontier inspirations (including real-world technical
information) is:
http://www.dyarstraights.com/msgundam/frontier.html#top

> that the more mass media items featuring orbital colonies, moon
> mining, and the rest you have, the more you would infect the
> population with the space colonization meme.

In the US an IMAX movie was made called L5 - First City in Space. I
never got to see this, and would be willing, at this point, to buy it
on DVD or even VHS. http://www.imax.com/films/now_playing/L5.html

> The last TV show I can remember that was a mass media item of some
> popularity featuring a city on the moon was Space 1999 which was
> from the mid 70s!

Also, the Moon was blasted out of orbit (intact, mind you!) at
superluminal speeds, making it a "wandering starship."

> Babylon 5 has a space colony but not around the Earth!

I was glad to see that they had a sort of Bernal Sphere thing going.
But then again, the rest of B5 seemed to have that oh-so-reliable
artificial gravity that had nothing to do with spinning. Perhaps I'm
wrong about that. I didn't watch it very often.

> The Colony you hear about on B5 near Earth is a dirtside colony
> on Mars!

But of course!

> No asteroid miners or colonies in the asteroid belt. Why don't the
> space colonization advocacy groups try to fund or start movie and
> TV projects with space colonization featured in them and ordinary
> joes and janes in space?

Good idea. How much per ep do you think it would cost?

> Not documentary works but

Those too! The more the merrier.

> fiction and not,possibly dull to the average guy, sci-fish works but
> dramatic mass market stuff but with the colony stuff in the
> background sneaking into their minds.

I've thought that for some time ('88 or so), but have neither the
talent to write it nor the connections to get it on the air if I did.
Here are some ideas:
A family show. Think Family Ties, The Cosby Show, Leave It to
flippin' BEAVER, for all I care. The only difference between this
and any other family show is that the family lives in a Stanford
Torus. The little morality plays (don't lie to your parents,
kiddies) and funny (to everybody except the character they happen
too) situations ("Billy, the hunk, likes me? But I already said I'd
go to the dance with Paul, the class clown") take place with the HF
stuff as the setting.

An animated show for kids. The first habitat is about to open, but
these ugly, bad guy aliens want to stop humanity from expanding into
space. They don't dare just zap us, though, because these cute, good
guy aliens want us to have a fair chance. Neither side dares to act
openly, so the uglies bribe space pirates and saboteurs and the
cuties pick out four (predictably young) Humans and give them weird
science supertech devices, making them into superheroes. These
superheroes now serve as Defenders of the High Frontier!

A retread of Love Boat, only instead of a cruise ship the shenanigans
all take place aboard an orbital resort. The eps focus on the
usually wealthy (and always goofy) vacationers from Earth, but some
of the resort's guests are in transit to the Moon, or to the
construction sites at L5, or on their way back to Earth from the same.

> When the meme becomes a plague you can then tell them all they could
> live in those things they saw in the movies and on TV. You can't
> fly on the Enterprise but you could live in orbit on a Bernal
> sphere so just write your congressman. Why aren't they doing
> that? If enough of the voters wanted it the government would do it.

Sounds like a plan to me. So again: how do we take over the airwaves?

It does seem that the Japanese now have an advantage over the rest of
the world: everybody above the age of 10 knows what a habitat is.

Xenophile (who is very good at starting stories, TV shows, movies,
etc., but not so good at finishing them)